Vincent Bons

Builder of odd and wonderful things.

Commissions

I take on commissioned work: interactive websites, digital experiences, 3D, AI, applications and small games. What I make and what it costs (in het Nederlands).

Argentum: A Magic: The Gathering rules engine and game client. Play full games against friends or an AI opponent.
Talespinner: A tool for writers: stories spun together with AI.
Mana from the Machine: An AI-powered generator for complete, playable Magic: The Gathering sets, art and all.
Carcassonne: The board game Carcassonne in Python, built to be an environment for reinforcement learning. Later rebuilt in Kotlin.
Transformer: A text generation model built from scratch on the transformer architecture, one attention head at a time.
Music Generation Toolbox: A toolbox for generating music with transformers. It helped write our song for the AI Song Contest 2021.
Lunar Lander: Teaching an agent to land softly on the moon with deep Q-learning, in the OpenAI Gym LunarLander environment.
lazyhttp: A terminal UI for running .http test plans step by step, like lazygit for your HTTP requests.

Lead developer, Direct+, ENTRNCE · Arnhem (2025 – now)
Developer, ENTRNCE · Arnhem (2020 – 2025)
Software engineer, Going Dutch Studio · Lochem (a Backbone project) (2017 – 2020)
Solutions architect, Backbone Systems · Amersfoort and Berlin (2014 – 2020)
Master’s thesis, Utrecht University, at Backbone Systems (2013 – 2014)
Co-founder, head of technology, uniQ Development · Velp (2013 – 2014)
Web application developer, ZorgDigi · Velp (2011 – 2013)
Student, Studentaanhuis · Arnhem (2010 – 2011)
Master, Computing Science: advanced planning and decision making, Utrecht University (2011 – 2014)
Bachelor, Informatics, Utrecht University (2007 – 2011)

Architecture: Software architecture, Modular monoliths, Domain-driven design, Technical direction
Languages: Kotlin, Java, Python, TypeScript, C# (a bit)
Building the thing: Spring Boot, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, React, Android, Three.js, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions
AI & machine learning: Agentic engineering, LLM apps & agents, Neural networks from scratch, Transformers from scratch, Fine-tuning, Reinforcement learning, Image generation, Music generation
Games: Rules engines, Game AI, Godot, Procedural worlds
Know-how: Energy trading, Route planning, Public transport, Car sharing